The Keeping House

A hidden room behind a cellar wall holds decades of dead strangers' belongings—and a retired detective's darkest inheritance. Brian Dowle came to the Yorkshire coast to start over, running the clifftop bed-and-breakfast his mother left him. But when renovation exposes wallets, watches, and a woman's locket linked to missing persons cases stretching back forty years, the quiet village of Salterby closes ranks. Someone will burn the truth to ash before letting it surface, and Brian's teenage daughter is caught in the crossfire.